I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
Choose your battles wisely. Unless you have a very high chance of victory, spare your energy and walk away
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.
One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.
I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.
It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.
The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.
I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.
As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both.
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.
I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.
Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
